The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Wednesday the indictment of the cement group Lafarge for "
complicity in crimes against humanity
" concerning its activities until 2014 in Syria, AFP learned from sources familiar with the matter.
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As part of this judicial investigation opened in June 2017 and subject to numerous procedural developments, the group, now a subsidiary of Holcim, is suspected of having paid in 2013 and 2014, via a subsidiary, several million euros to terrorist groups, including the Islamic State organization (IS), as well as to intermediaries, in order to maintain the activity of a cement factory in Syria while the country was sinking into the war.
His lawyers declined to comment.